Why the International Community Should Follow Trump’s Lead on Jerusalem

President Trump in Jerusalem, at the Western Wall, remnant of the Second Temple which was destroyed by the Romans in 70 ACE.

President Trump has fulfilled a promise that, frankly, I did not believe he would keep.

But by recognizing Israel’s capital as Israel’s capital he has proven himself a friend of Israel and the Jewish people in a manner that is unique among American presidents. It would be interesting to discover how Trump arrived at this important decision, but ultimately it is Trump’s decision and he should be applauded by those who cherish truth and by those who hate the default Islamic appeasement that has taken hold of the chattering classes in the West.

Lt. Col (res.) Dr. Mordechai Kedar, a man who knows the Arab world inside out, has written a valuable guide to Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s eternal capital.

Now that US President Trump has recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and announced plans to relocate the US embassy to Jerusalem, Arab and Muslim leaders and spokespersons have been trying to frighten other nations out of following his lead. To counter that effort, the world should consider a few salient points.

Jerusalem, the capital of the state of the Jewish people, is one of the most ancient capitals in the world. It became the capital of Israel’s monarchy during the reign of King David – that is, around 1000 B.C.E., over 3,000 years ago, when the capitals of the countries who now refuse to recognize it were still boggy swamps, leafy forests, or arid deserts. The history of the oldest nations of Europe, the Greeks and the Romans, proves without a doubt that Jerusalem was already the capital of the Jewish nation in ancient times.

The Jews are the only indigenous people of the land of Israel. They lived in Jerusalem for over 1,600 years prior to the birth of Islam, which occurred in 610 C.E. Putting it bluntly, the Jews lived in Jerusalem when Islam’s forefathers were still pagan nomads in the Arabian Peninsula. The Muslims of today certainly don’t have the right to oppose Jerusalem’s being recognized as the capital of the Jewish state.

It is unacceptable in the modern world for Muslim threats of terror attacks and mass rioting to be granted sufficient clout to limit or direct the political decisions of world powers.

No other country in the world accepts external dictates regarding the location of its own capital city. The very idea is risible.

Why doesn’t the world recognize Israeli sovereignty in Jerusalem despite Israel’s liberation of the city’s eastern sector from illegal and illegitimate Jordanian occupation – unrecognized by the entire international community (apart from Britain and Pakistan)?

King Abdullah II, the current Jordanian monarch, is trying to pressure Israel into establishing a Palestinian state on the hills of the West Bank with its capital in East Jerusalem. Yet his father, King Hussein, who assumed the throne in 1952, refrained from doing so. Not only did Palestinian statehood not become an issue for Jordan prior to its loss of the West Bank in the June 1967 war but it did its utmost to obliterate any trace of Palestinian nationalism.

The Arab League demands that Israel establish a Palestinian state in the same area delineated by Abdullah II. Yet it demanded no such thing of King Hussein during the years of his illegal control of the West Bank. Nor did it ever express any interest in Palestinian statehood prior to that war. The same applies to the many governments and political figures backing the establishment of a Palestinian state in the West Bank with East Jerusalem as its capital.

Once all foreign embassies move to Jerusalem, Israel’s enemies will be forced to realize that their prolonged struggle to destroy the Jewish state has failed.

He declared: “Jerusalem is and always will be the capital of Palestine.”

The key point here is Jerusalem, not East Jerusalem. Given where the Temple Mount is located one might argue the difference does not matter, but the fact that the story changes so drastically is nevertheless significant in itself.

Re: the header photo. It just occurred to me that Trump may well be touching that wall where a legionnaire or Titus himself had also touched it. Though it must be remembered Titus touched it in a very different way.

I am currently listening to the audio version of Tom Holland’s history of Islam, “In the Shadow of the Sword.” He has a lot of early history and even some doubts about the reality of Mohammed. It has resulted in credible death threats to him.

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